Healer Confessions

[MayuraT]

I let friends die, if they get on my nerves. I purposely make them feel safe and tear that feeling away and enjoy it

At one point me and some of my friends were farming the Triple Triad card drop from Cutter's Cry and so we were switching up roles to not get bored and started playing this game where we would wait to see how low our PLD friend's hp will get before we have to heal him.

My record was 1 hp xD

[Amiaze]

If you're rude to me in a 24-man-raid and you see a tether or giant ball of destruction headed your way, you'd best run.

Because I'm coming for you.

[Nightray]

Not realising that diurnal sect removes itself when i enter a new dungeon, that tank just went splat and I refuse to take the blame..... but it was me

[Alisi]

Really?

Yeah, I know. And it always shows me as being out of the zones and I'll still get hit. I have no idea why it's that boss that always hits me with horrendous lag either. It makes no sense what so ever. You'd think the third boss in Nevereap would lag me out or any of the others but it's just that single encounter. =/ No clue why.

[jcfoster11]

OK, I have a good one now:

Finally got scholar unlocked, so I decide to go into guildhest roulette for something easy to try it out on .... and get dropped into Briaxio (the one with the sylphs that hand out all the debuffs). I'm suddenly panicking inside because scholars don't get esuna, but it's a good group and we still clear without too much trouble. After leaving, however, I glance at the party list and it hits me that there's one fewer line than it should have.

That's right -- I'd never summoned a pet. I facepalmed so hard, and to make it worse, I *still* got two commendations out of it.

[Soladiirn]

I let tanks die when I get healer aggro and they don't bother to pull off me after I run into range of the tank's AoE abilities to let them just stand in place to pull things off. Even worse is when the mobs they're targeting die and they just run on ahead to the next group of mobs. I like to think I'm teaching them to keep things from chewing the healer's face, but it's honestly just amusing to watch the tank pull a group of four, die instantly, and have the mobs reset while the dps and I kill whatever is attacking me.

Not sure why, but it's happened several times in the last week or so. I always thought it seemed like common sense to keep the healer from taking damage, since it makes their job that much harder.

[Krijger]

Whenever you're busy casting Esuna on yourself and healing yourself from a major AOE attack from the boss, and see the Tanks health slowly depleting until they die, priorities my friends, if the healer dies, everyone dies. HA!

[Rin_Kuroi]

I give DPS that are prone to taking avoidable damage/dying Regens on CD like tanks. So, if you get a random Regen, it's most likely because you're bad.

My static calls this the pity regen.

[bounddreamer]

I put dots on everything at the start of pulls and see how low the tank's health can get before they need heals. Sometimes the answer is "they die before I switch off cleric stance because they don't use cooldowns." Last weekend a tank died three times before we got to the first boss. He quit and I was happy to drop bc the dps (and tank) were all incredibly bad. Archer pulling, both dps not waiting for tank and taking hate, tank not stunning, tank completely mucking up the tough corner pull with the two maids. Two out of three tank deaths were 100% not my fault. (The other one I was partially to blame but dude, would it kill you to use a cooldown OH WAIT.)

[jcfoster11]

I let tanks die when I get healer aggro and they don't bother to pull off me after I run into range of the tank's AoE abilities to let them just stand in place to pull things off. Even worse is when the mobs they're targeting die and they just run on ahead to the next group of mobs. I like to think I'm teaching them to keep things from chewing the healer's face, but it's honestly just amusing to watch the tank pull a group of four, die instantly, and have the mobs reset while the dps and I kill whatever is attacking me.

Not sure why, but it's happened several times in the last week or so. I always thought it seemed like common sense to keep the healer from taking damage, since it makes their job that much harder.

I don't normally do this intentionally, but sometimes it still happens due to trying to keep myself and the people who are trying to pull off me alive.

For another of my own: I'm sort of afraid to level any more healers (or tanks, for that matter) since I've spent so little time in the 40-50 dungeons.